smallholder
A person who owns or runs a smallholding: a minor independent farmerA person who owns or runs a smallholding (small farm): a minor independent farmer.
» Should developers be able to run roughshod over smallholders and ancestral dwellings?
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2 sensesA person who owns or runs a smallholding (small farm): a minor independent farmer.
a person owning or renting a smallholding
(US, historical)A small slaveholder: a person who owns a smallholding (small plantation with slavery).
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4 sentencesShould developers be able to run roughshod over smallholders and ancestral dwellings?
Cotula has also studied other business models that involve collaboration with smallholders, including tenant farming and sharecropping.
Following the recent food supply and price crises, world leaders pledged to invest much more in agriculture, especially smallholder agriculture.
Well Ethiopia, in terms of raising agricultural output and helping their smallholder farmers, really did a fantastic job.
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